New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-16

Rooms were once let to bachelors in the Young
Mems Christian Association Building, at Fourth
ave. and Twenty-third-t., but for some years all
| have been turned into artists studios Rents
were low here, the single rooms bringing some
times only $500 There are O number Of smaller
| buildings in Twenty-thirdst st. where apartments
are let few at time, and upper Broadway Is
full Of places where only bachelors can get lodg-
.hgs, by the day, week or month. at all sorts Of
prices.
The Alpine, at Broadway and Thirty third So,
will be, when completed and opened, by Iar tne
largest of the bachelors apartment houses. IL Is
built on a part of the ground bought by ~. II:
McAlpn from Peter b. Sweeney, OF the i~eea
Ring. The whole plot runs from 1hlrty-tmru-so'
TO Ihir4yfourthst and back some distance from
broadway and Sixthave Mr.. McAlI in received
an offer of a million and half for the entire prop
erty few years ago, but declined to sell. The
new apartment house cost 100000 In building
and with the ground It occupies is worth now
about three-Quarters Of a million 1t Is eight
stories in height, with graysh stone facings and
an air of great soldty. The slicing away Of the
corner Of Thirty third-st. and Sixth.avc by the
intersection Of Broadway has given the big building
three distinct faces, all with more or less OF
southern exposure. The house is fre-proof one
with iron staifways. The A 81 floor will be used
chiefly for stores and offices. There will be
saesrOom two on the second flor AMI studios
on the eighth floor. The third. fourth. fifth, sixth
and seventh floors are built a single general
plan for the bachelors oil artments proper. lhere
are twenty nine suites on each, each suite Win
two large rooms and bathroom Each bathroom
opens on the air or o ventnating shaft Inc
rooms are well lighted and have high ceilings
The trimmings of oak, maple, ash and cherry
and the floors are Of white pine. All the suites
are to be heated by steam. for which no charoe
will be made There are three elevators, ana
electric bells and speaking tubes all over the house
No situation could be more central or conven-
lent with an elevated station and three lines oil
horse at the door, and nearly all the big hotels
and theatres within easy reach. The noise OF
Broadway is. Of course, redOubled where it crosses
Sixth-ave., and the lower floors Of the Alpine are
not likely TO prove quiet retreat by day or
night But hubbub outside, the orthodox bach
clor thinks, is nothing COmrared with hubDuD
inside. and on the UPPER floors at least, where one
can look away across the miles Of housctops and
the distant river to the Jersey bluffs, the roar OF
the crowded streets dies away more and more into
that low-kcycd buzz and thrObbing of great city
which never leaves the The air aloft Is pure,
too. and the suns rays are unobstructed when
will prove divided blessing at different seasons
of the year.
few suites in the Alpine have already been
taken and furnished. The house will be opened
probably in February or March, with Mr.. Mitchell
the janitOr of the Bcncdick. in charge. The rents
of the suites vary from $500 to 5000. accorGln" to
location the inside rooms, facing toward Thirty
fOurtlst., not bringing more than $500 or S'0O IN
any case. There Oren crates in all the pailois
of the suites Gas will be the only other extra
all service being given free.